domenica 10 maggio 2026
domenica 1 marzo 2026
The Agadir of Amtoudi
“L‘architettura è troppo importante per essere lasciata agli architetti” - Giancarlo De Carlo
The Igudar, also called “agadir,” are old communal granaries built by the Amazigh people, dating back to at least the 13th century. These strong buildings were used to store valuable things like grain and oil and helped families work together and trust one another. Each family had its own space inside. The Igudar can be found in Morocco and other North African countries and show how Berber architecture fits into the Sahara landscape.
sabato 6 maggio 2023
CIDADE QUINTAL - Handmade Urbanism
Ogni tanto - un pò troppo raramente, per la verità, da qualche anno a questa parte - scopro delle ricerche e delle sperimentazioni in ambito di architettura e progettazione di spazi urbani che mi emozionano.
E' il caso di questo gruppo Cidade Quintal attivo a Vitòria in Brasile, che ho scoperto ora su Archdaily, sfogliando tra troppa architettura piuttosto monotona e precotta.
https://www.cidadequintal.com.br/ ossia, urbanistica "dal basso", handmade urbanism
Il progetto si intitola "Cabral Lookout"
"Twenty-four thousand plastic caps donated by residents of the Morro do Quadro neighborhood in Vitória-ES served as the basis for socio-spatial improvements in a lookout point in the region. The project, which involved community agency, creation, and execution, was developed by Cidade Quintal and was part of the actions of the MC Festival - favela edition, held by the Cidade Movement.
Beyond everyday experiences, it is a meeting point for the Serenata D'Favela choir, an initiative that for 13 years has driven young talents from the neighborhood through music. According to members, it is the perfect setting for video recordings and performances that showcase the power of the place: the people and their incredible view of other communities. It was Serenata D'Favela that embraced the project, helped define the intervention space, and closely followed the development."
- text by Cidade Quintal
Merita farsi un giro sul loro sito, anche per i loro bellissimi disegni di progetto:
"Siamo Cidade Quintal, un'organizzazione dedicata a trasformare gli spazi e catalizzare azioni positive in tutta la città. Lavoriamo nel campo del design e dell'urbanistica partecipativa per rafforzare le narrazioni della comunità e migliorare la convivenza."
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Cidade Quintal on Facebook.
venerdì 2 ottobre 2020
Architect Nina Maritz
Lateral Thinking in all its beauty and power.
"Our practice philosophy can be expressed by the Navajo/Diné concept of “hozho”, i.e. environmental beauty, the happiness one experiences by being in harmony with nature. Architecture can only be complete when it works well – true beauty comes from a combination of the pragmatic, the aesthetic and the sustainable.
(...) Contextual response is crucial: appropriate approaches in a country like Namibia entail careful deployment of funding to achieve as much as possible without wasting resources. Thorough design and lateral thinking make the most of limited means. The aesthetic impact of using materials in unusual ways, exploiting their natural textures and colours, can push the boundaries of architectural design."
from Architect Nina Maritz - Ethos
All images are © Nina Maritz Architects
Video producer: Joris Komen & DNKMN Object Kinematicssabato 16 gennaio 2016
Alejandro Aravena e PREVI
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| Elemental - Arch. A. Aravena |
lunedì 17 agosto 2015
Las Palmitas - Mexico
This’ll put your neighborhood art project to shame.
Posted by PBS NewsHour on Mercoledì 12 agosto 2015
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A youth organization that’s been known to use graffiti as a means of expression has teamed up with the government of Mexico to rehabilitate Palmitas, a town in the Pachuca district. Under the moniker “Germen Crew,” the group painted 209 houses, or twenty-thousand square meters of facade, into a single rainbow mural.
sabato 31 gennaio 2015
Samuel Mockbee, an Architecture of Decency
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domenica 14 settembre 2014
Beyond Visibility
No. So start with this: make a welcome of each door, and a countenance of each window.
Make of each a place, a bunch of places of each house and each city, for a house is a tiny city, a city a huge house.
Get closer to the centre of human reality and build its counterform — for each man and all men (today the architect is the ally of everyman or no man).
Whoever attempts to solve the riddle of space in the abstract will construct the outline of emptiness and call it space.
Whoever attempts to meet man in the abstract will speak with his echo and call this a dialogue.
Man still breathes both in and out, when is architecture going to do the same?
When it does watch the thin lines — those narrow borderlines — loop into the places people need; watch how they are persuaded to loop generously into a tiny-huge.
Inbetween realm
It is with this in mind that i venture to call architecture
built homecoming"
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As soon as the equilibrating impact of the Inbetween Realm (extended so that it coincides with the bunch of places both house and city should be) manifests itself in a comprehensibly articulated configuration, the chances that the terrifying polarities which hitherto have harrassed man's right composure may still be reconciled will certainly be greater.









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